Chemical Valley

Contemporary issues: climate crisis, social justice, 21st century alienation. The characters in these stories are struggling with feelings of dislocation and exile from their natural and social worlds: a man struggling to care for the environment and his dying girlfriend while still working at a power plant that's poluting his city,
Genre: Huebert's stories engage with the ecological world in surprising ways, expressing wonder at the world around us, dismay at its destruction, and using that world as a metaphor for humanity's own floundering, a new genre of ecological/climate fiction he conceives of as 'dirty nature writing'
Huebert is one of Canada's most exciting younger generation writers across multiple genres. He has been a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize, winner of the CBC Short Story Contest, and winner of the Walrus Poetry Contest